 | 1829 - 494 sidor
...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 sidor
...describzit. Adam and Eve'& Conversation and Evening Worship. — MILTON * NOW came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nest Were sunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sidor
...dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 sidor
...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 sidor
...these to their nests', Were sunk* ; all but the wakeful nightingale\ She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence was pleas'd\ Now glow'd the...living sapphires* : Hesperus', that led The starry hosf , rode brightesf , till the moon', Rising in clouded majesty', at length', Apparent queen', unveil'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 sidor
...reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 Thejt4ftJihJeJ^grassj_c,o•up•h!-t}iCSe"tJTIieir nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 sidor
...and Twilight gray Had in her soher livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for heast and hird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all hut the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 sidor
...WHITEHEAD. SECTION V. Discourse between Adam and Eve, retiring to reit. NOW came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things..." £ " They to their grassy couch, these to their i Were sunk ; all but tlie wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung ; Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 sidor
...reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still evening, on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompany'd ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 sidor
...reflected purple and gold The clouds, that oh his western throne attend. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things...was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living saphirs: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty,... | |
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous... 
